Construction Details

Notable features

A fanciful eclectic composition of spires with a dominant clock tower, which, for about 50 years, complemented Flinders Street station to the east.

History

Architect:

This building has been destroyed (1956)

Around the time of the Olympics, Melbourne sought to modernise her image in preparation for the 1956 games. As a result, many ugly Victorians (in the era of modernism) were tidied up. The growth of floorspace meant that the Fish Market needed to be moved to the Spencer Street Railyards. The old Fish Market was demolished to create a carpark and Flinders Street flyover.